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State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Farouk Akanbi, has described
Federal Government’s decision to streamline JAMB and NECO to a plan that will
lead to massive job loss in the country.
Akanbi,
who made this known an interactive section with an online media on Friday that
the decision have both positive and negative implications if implemented.
According
to him, one of the most negative implications is the thousands of jobs that may
be lost as a result of the cancellation of the two examination bodies.
“If
JAMB and NECO is scrapped, what will be the fate of the workers of these
organisations that are in all the 36 states of the country?” he asked.
He
advised that government should not rush to streamline the examination bodies
without first considering the fate of the workers.
The
NLC chairman also said that a lot of things should be put in place before
government entrust the responsibility of conducting examinations solely on
WAEC.
Akanbi,
who is also NUT Chairman in the state, noted that WAEC did not belong to
Nigeria alone as it was a body jointly owned by some West African countries.
He
noted that it was a good move for Federal Government to streamline the number
of agencies in the country.
The
NLC chairman, however, said such move should start from the Presidency and
National Assembly, as the two bodies took the lion share of the nation’s budget
recurrent expenditure.
“We
should not just scrap JAMB and NECO. We should request National Assembly to
maintain fiscal discipline,” Akanbi said.
He
said that reducing the cost of governance should not be done in isolation, but
across board.
According
to him, Nigerian workers must not be made to suffer government’s decision to
reduce cost in governance.
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